Columbia Professor says he leaked memo at Comey's request

Comey says he asked a friend to leak his memo to the press in hopes that it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel.

Author:
Tegna

Published:
12:47 PM EDT June 8, 2017

Updated:
12:53 PM EDT June 8, 2017

Former FBI Director James Comey revealed during his testimony for a Senate panel that he asked a "good friend" to leak private memos detailing his conversations with President Donald Trump to the press in hopes that it would lead to the appointment of a special counsel.

Comey did not name the friend publicly, but Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman confirmed that he leaked the memos, according to multiple reports.

Richman is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.